Hood Vlog Buffalo NY: Benny The Butcher Tours The Trenches Of The Murder Capital

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​Eye Shot showcases a featured music artist and let hip hop speak for hip hop. We’ll explore the city’s history, racial climate, economic wealth gap, crime rate, and rap music scene through the voice of the hip hop culture bred in that city.
With rap music taking over mainstream, it seems as though everyone is speaking on and for hip hop besides hip hop! “EYE SHOT", a docu-series letting the hip hop culture in cities across the world tell us the side of the story the media hides or misinforms us about. How NWA exposed the world to the rough streets of Compton, the Geto Boys hipping us to how things were handled in Houston, or uncle Luke showing us how the Miami party scene gets lit. Our pilot starts in the streets of Buffalo, New York. With our featured rap artist “Benny the Butcher” and the B.S.F. team.
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[@allurbancentral]

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[@devanwilliams3760]

Can we get a break down of the griselda songs plz

[@devanwilliams3760]

What's the Conway song at 5:27

[@francesige8055]

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[@jamesspears6815]

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[@rrixh1]

RRIXH I appreciate it you just to try tt t

[@JRock_-nw1zk]

We need to stop actin like murder rates are cool....the devil is at work... Strong.... We need to open our eyes and realize the truth

[@tristancloud9687]

Murder rates seem cool because the people that come from this city are touted to be tough/killers/etc. so when u say u from the Jungles(LA) or Polo Grounds(bxny) or 40ps(queens) people won’t mostly fuck wit ya

[@respectedmanco1195]

People that think that's kool are the same ones who think touching little kids it kool? Remember evil is evil

[@bsquare5665]

Right kzbin.info/www/bejne/lXu4pnesn95ljpY

[@junnie7828]

Buffalo ain’t bad just mind your Business and stay out the hood

[@royalmoore6179]

Wtf r u even talkin bout

[@BelialsGenuflect]

The older I get the more I think this whole "we got a higher murder rate" is cringe af.

[@vershawnsea9219]

Same bro. And ima street nigga. But dam. Its all u hear nowadays. Shit is corny

[@pmoney8701]

PS a murder rate isn’t something to value nor something to offer.

[@vaballard1]

Right!!!!!!!! Grown ass people doin it is what makes it more sad too glorify that shit

[@laquantaylor8136]

Not dick head just lettin ppl kno wats goin on

[@ericimi]

That's why certain neighborhoods are the way they are. People in nice areas dont ruin where they live and then boast about there failures.

[@vaballard1]

@@ericimi rite!

[@scottybricks3996]

@@laquantaylor8136 they talk about it with pride. Stop lying it ain't a good look.

[@michaelcastano2746]

Fun Fact:Buffalo,Ny is not the murder capitol and never has been.

[@nevertheless3856]

Right

[@BlasianBee]

Rochester

[@writtendegreez5748]

Rochester is

[@34monkeygrits]

Because nobody cares about Buffalo, by the numbers, most years Buffalo has a higher murder rate per 100k than Chicago. But Buffalo aint on CNN getting attention.

[@34monkeygrits]

@@writtendegreez5748 Rochester is just as bad as Buffalo and they have similar populations and similar murder rates, but some years Rochester is worse indeed, true.

[@michellenoack5856]

I’m a teacher at a charter school on the east side of Buffalo. We focus on African and African American infusion to build up our student’s cultural pride. The east Side is rough, but the people I have met in the community are kind and want change for themselves and their children. I’m proud to be from Buffalo

[@MrSharyelsapimp]

Enterprise charter school I went there for a year

[@MrSharyelsapimp]

Haha I’m Puerto Rican and I went to school 30 before enterprise I remember how much different the black history month was at enterprise it was a huge deal and good to see

[@Revolations68]

Infusion? How about act like cooked human beings. I was a resource officer, posted for 2 1/2 years. Cultural pride? How about teaching them right from wrong, proper English, how not to go to jail , how not to get knocked up at 13, how to set yourself up for success? You teachers are a joke and part of the problem. The crap I witnessed coming from the teachers and administrators was nauseating. Your retoric, propaganda and agendas destroyed the public schools on this country. Don’t even get me started on social workers.

[@eliw6607]

Waste of time and resources

[@cynthiastevens8302]

Well I wish I could meet the people you meet that want change.im not from Buffalo but wanted to help make change.i have run into people that team me down for no reason.Just haters that don't want change and it's so sad.seeing black people tear another black person down.Buffalo is country ghetto.

[@inspectah2342]

I’m tired of Rappers talking about how tough their hood is. It’s played out. It was already maxed out by 2010 These guys are proud their neighborhoods are terrible …they are proud their city has the highest murder rate.

[@yungflyherogood1764]

Hell yeah basically! You can walk anywhere you want to walk now the hood is becoming more gentrified by time😏😓😂😂😂🔒 #ItsTrue

[@crookeav7180]

Don't listen

[@crookeav7180]

When you survive the jungle got be glad your alive

[@yungflyherogood1764]

@@crookeav7180 Yeah but that shit getting old there's not a such thing anymore fam. It's more of a Huddle then Jungle most of the so called gangstas work 9 to 5 now an the rest just out there pretending an you know they young be straight bitches 😏😓😂😂😂#LMAO #ItsOver #WhatHappenToTheEarly90s

[@_KG900]

Bra I live in Buffalo for 10+ years, having seen a damn shooting once, I don’t think there no hoods in Buffalo, there trenches but we do have the mafia

[@JS-kr6ol]

I'm from Buffalo. It's a very rough place. Lots of racism, violence and poverty . Alot people that I grew up with r either dead or in jail including some family members

[@jjmadoublen7375]

Racism? Please elaborate.

[@ricosally6734]

Facts I live there for 10 years some areas are worse than the South

[@TBgunsandbutter]

@@jjmadoublen7375 get a dictionary doofus all the elaboration you need

[@TBgunsandbutter]

Ruff Buff, for sure, me and mines had to bang out with some East side niggas when we was up there getting money in the late '80s to mid '90s

[@moodmusic4life]

Buffalo and Milwaukee most racist cities in USA

[@jaywalker4097]

Lady set him up for the okie doke. Friendly retoric, then the famous, "Do u have a spare cigarette?" U gotta love it! Lmfao 🤣😂😆

[@dougdimmadome331]

Bruh I'm literally from buffalo I get it's a documentary but buffalo ny is not as bad as they're making it

[@gregorycook5305]

They always make Detroit look the same way.

[@Naptownghost]

Thats a fact our city isnt dangerous. Im still living at 39 no bullets etc did dumb shit yes but too many people wanna sell buff like its 😳 and its not. Its many many good things in the city to talk about other than who got bodied.

[@TheSublimeLifestyle]

@@gregorycook5305 Detroit is bad bruh, lol. Just like Buffalo. The issue is that the concentration of violence within both is extreme. That’s the nature of western NY and the Midwest. The shit isn’t fucking Aleppo but one piece of this mid-size city is the largest concentration of violence and crime.

[@2solid4tv48]

Preach Brother .. Its peaches and Cream ..

[@2solid4tv48]

@@gregorycook5305 hell Naw Homie Detroit is Terrible...more then Chicago

[@bradtoops5108]

Every state, every city has their hoods. It's up to us to succeed legally.

[@neodab4559]

yes and this ain’t one them

[@mxhughes]

My mom made it her business to always have my family live in the most neutral areas meaning being in homeowner neighborhoods,no projects,no notorious blocks or immediate spots where shit can pop off anytime of the day so luckily at times I didn't hafta deal too much but I've been in parts where shit coulda got bad.Mainly if you mind your business and carry yourself a certain way you shouldn't be bothered out here unless you in the wrong place at the wrong time or involved with street shit out here

[@TBgunsandbutter]

so did my Earth, salute

[@yrg9405]

Loved this! Wish it was longer!

[@mobbinkorrectly]

He was on point with LA and Oakland it’s two different places. Now I can see why ppl from Buffalo get mad because I’m Cali everybody think we go off La culture even if you from up norf the Bay Area but it’s not like that it’s two different cultures

[@mackrealla8419]

Yea they know no better.. just like when they be like Cali is nothing but beaches, palm trees and movie stars and rich ppl.. smh, but never been here to see. Now I'm from East Oakland CA born and raised and trust me it's nothing to what the rest of the world think it is and that's fa surely..

[@mobbinkorrectly]

@@mackrealla8419 on god bruh my family from the south always use too think Cali was all beaches and sunshine. Playin in the wrong city or town out here will get you knock down. facts it’s nothin like the world imagines

[@masonjohnson2248]

i grew up on grant & layfette, helen & herkimer & pops used to re up off genessee. i went to ps 19. johnson family, real buffalo kid. ❤️ sweet and sound music on grant street was LIFE!!!

[@_KG900]

I used to live near main, most of my family live on laffette

[@_KG900]

My cousin live in the apartments behind the Mindella store

[@Naptownghost]

Bailey ave uptown all day but lemme say this......buffalo aint never been a murda city i just bounced to Indianapolis Indiana because of my mothers health.

[@mozambique7930]

Shepard's liquor store Baliey and Berkshire we still here....

[@Retro_Gamer_89]

I use to stay on grant and forest in the mid to late 90s as a kid 💪

[@busterevergreen9673]

Thank you for this I’ve talked to people all over the country and WE are the only group of people going through this. There’s a system in place to keep us in a state of disarray just know no one will change or solve our problems but us with education and learning to keep our money in a community. This or Parrish I love y’all✌🏾

[@lllADemiRlll]

This video helped me a lot. Thanks for posting this.

[@supremefry9940]

When you hear a srt pulling you know it’s buffalo lol

[@calibreezi5179]

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[@bombsquadgenetix4053]

This was dope. Was just in buffalo recently cant wait for part 2

[@jeffweaver7983]

Buffalo is a wonderful place to grow up and to live in. The hood is the same no matter where you go.

[@user-xr5rf7bg3x]

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[@kayflip2233]

Shout out to Buffalo, never duckin' low all the way from Toronto. It's a 2 hour drive to another country but we share a lot of the same nostalgia and memories going back and forth. Feels like home to me.

[@CJRyan716]

Accurate depiction. Proud our local guys Benny , WSG, and Conway for their success! Speaking as Buffalonian who's lived in North Buff, Queens, BX, I consider us 'The Mid Weast Coast'. We have more in common with the other cities in the rust belt, but '6th borough' fits too.

[@jjmadoublen7375]

Not even close to being accurate

[@zhx2365]

@@jjmadoublen7375 right , talkin bout "6Th bOrOuGh" .

[@964302]

Same here bro Iam 🍀 lucky enough to have parents that thought the same way. My dad didn’t have “ self hate” he just knew if you lived in a all black neighborhood that all your services like Utilities, ( electric&Gas) snow removal, potholes, all these “DPW” chores that towns do would definitely be lacking in black an brown areas of town. Services were always “Lacking” but he bought into a “very mixed” race, black, brown, Spanish, middle eastern. Where we didn’t worry

[@Buffalosabskis]

“6th borough” dude we are a 6 hour drive from any borough. Buffalo is more like Canada than anything like NYC.

[@drilladelphia7560]

I say the same thing about Pittsburgh too bro, it’s not technically the mid west but it’s right there and the natives act more like midwesterners than east coast buhls

[@Noel_13]

Stay strong Buffalo. Can't wait to visit your city one day. Love from Argentina.

[@Hastalaverga420]

Why

[@markbritt7477]

My parents are from the east side moved to grand island, when i got older i moved to downtown buffalo ,north pearl street,buffalo is my home , tough ,strong, and proud

[@TeenoJones]

6:07 starts is the craziest 🧢 up ever “Just to calm my mafukn nerves “😂😂😂😂

[@kingnicklegs1398]

That was a perfect way of putting it it’s like comparing Los Angeles to Oakland I’m from Alta so I clearly understand what you’re saying same property just different demographics in a different state and from LA to Oakland is six hours

[@thisaintthat2133]

SHOUT OUT TO BUFFALO... YALL KEEP STRIVING FOR GREATNESS 💯

[@buiegl]

This was put together well. 👏🏾

[@therealdjspecialk]

I grew up In Buffalo, East Side in the 60's & 70's. I appreciate this film!

[@PassportKingMarineVet]

I been to Buffalo, just like anyplace, be respectful, don’t be flashy, don’t be out all night by yourself, be cool, and you’ll be ok.

[@juancarlosnegron2358]

I'm from the riverside area of buffalo I've lived here my whole life I love my city but the senseless killings are getting way out of control. Listen I'm not knocking anybody hustle you do what you feel you must to get by, however if we put that same time and energy into doing something positive we would be able to appreciate each other more. There are real serious things going on in this world that require our attention but we're allowing ourselves to be distracted by negative activities. I don't even really listen to rap no more because the message it sends is been said already let's talk about doing something right. Stop glamorizing the killing and drug game there's no glory in it.

[@Beathis]

I’m Brooklyn NYC. And from all the upstate cities? Buffalo and Syracuse is the hardest.. we love you guys down here!

[@bigal1456]

As a man who lives in Toronto that go to Buffalo often. Toronto doesn't have a NFL team so if you want to watch good football and you live in Toronto you must go to Buffalo or Detroit to watch a game. Also every time Toronto Maple Leafs play the Buffalo Sabers in Buffalo we try to make it to the game. We have also been bored on a Friday or Saturday night and driven from Toronto to Buffalo just to eat chicken wings. I guess what I'm trying to say is Buffalo is a nice place to visit! Nice people, good times and great vibes!! Just stay in your lane and be respectful and you will have a blast in Buffalo!! Mad love from Toronto ♥️💯🇨🇦🇯🇲

[@michaeldouglastine6280]

I live in Buffalo I use to see all the dudes out here they are real dudes who live what they rap but at the same time this isn’t cool if you don’t make it out it’s over for you they should thank god they made it out because if not more terrible things could have happened salute

[@yahshaunyahu]

Every yr there's a new murd capitol. The reality is, it's blk gen a side. Yt keeps deleting my comment if I spell it the right way

[@bvsteel990]

buffalo is not the murder capital and never has been.

[@inspectah2342]

This the same story we have heard a million times

[@JamesBrown-gx4jq]

This is sadly the truth about America..

[@JamesBrown-gx4jq]

And it never changes because all we do is talk about it a million more times, smfh .

[@yujiyato8800]

@@JamesBrown-gx4jq it never changes because when ever the conversation is brought up those of power shut their eyes and ears and wait for shit to escalate

[@JamesBrown-gx4jq]

@@yujiyato8800 Sad, ignorant and unfit for their positions but so true..

[@dtfm1800blk]

Im from Dallas and i knew before this started somebody was gone address them 4 SuperBowl Losses

[@simpdown1404]

Buffalo Area Code 044

[@therealwhoopigoldberg]

I'm from Buffalo and I live in Dallas. I stay putting on for Buff. Yall need a VCR to watch them superbowls. Look at the league now!

[@lazerousmcnaughton5526]

@@therealwhoopigoldberg Yoo go to Buffalo Bros in Fort Worth if you haven’t been. It’s a Buffalo Bills backer bar restaurant type shit. You’ll meet mad ppl from Buffalo/Western Ny, when the Bills play it’s lit. I’m from Niagara Falls & I live in FortWorth

[@therealwhoopigoldberg]

@@lazerousmcnaughton5526 I definitely will go. I went to the one in Dallas and it was disappointing. I heard good things about that one. Are there people from WNY there even during offseason?

[@lazerousmcnaughton5526]

@@therealwhoopigoldberg yessir most definitely. It’s best to go when Bills play but go whenever the food will have you feeling like you’re back home in NY. Good eats & vibes 💯

[@pushingpositivity518]

The income in Buffalo is crazy considering they have an amazing universities. I would think it would be more than what it is considering the educational opportunities available.

[@youngsimba1770]

Seeing my City on KZbin hits different

[@Factsoverfeelings4593]

Is nobody really watching? I didn’t see anyone glorify violence they were actually trying to give solutions

[@BB-uu9oo]

I was wondering the same thing based on the comments. There was only one guy that could be perceived as being proud of his city's dangerous nature. Merely recognizing it isn't taking pride in it.

[@AJY987]

It's like these people didn't watch the whole video and just decided to type a comment 45 seconds in

[@inhouseent9865]

This was dope 🔥.

[@solomomjourneywithnia]

I'm from Buffalo , grew up on Butler Ave💙 & I live in the South now & it's so funny because people always say "oh you're from the country part of NY" 🤣, it's crazy. In the south, it's like they think NY is literally only NY City lol! It's nothing country about it. But they broke this down perfectly, this is definitely Buffalo, it ain't all pretty, but it's home, for me!

[@rakimmagee782]

@Pretty Mango?

[@videosurfah]

That shit looks to cold

[@solomomjourneywithnia]

@@videosurfah it's cold asf🤣🤣🤣

[@videosurfah]

@@solomomjourneywithnia I know right! My homie moved from Rochester and has never been back and that was 40+ years ago

[@MrSharyelsapimp]

Yo so I lived on Fargo on the west side for years and just recently moved out to Hamburg area just for a nicer apartments what I learned is that it gets real country real quick but I’ll always love my hood shootout 716 And Niagara st

[@DJSimmons]

Me: **Watches Intro** Also Me: Yep, that's my city 🤦🏿‍♂️

[@RainSupreme]

This a good series

[@reginaldallen7648]

I just had a feeling we was on the Eastside when we seen that mural on ferry st. I’m from Eastside Baltimore. It’s a feeling u have. Eastside I was raised different Loved

[@Jennifer-cg4bx]

I need episode two because I’m so mixed feelings about what’s been said , being born and raised here and lived all over and currently living in a small kind of suburb area something’s said was on point and some isn’t but I love my city .

[@MrSharyelsapimp]

Where you at I lived in the west side for a lil bit I lived in Hamburg by the Stadium for a lil

[@Jennifer-cg4bx]

@@MrSharyelsapimp I lived in the mariner homes , shorelines , pine harbor, Plymouth and Arnold street but I’m out in NT

[@deborahbauer-covell4289]

I live in the OLD FIRST WARD OF BUFFALO ACROSS FROM THE PERRY PROJECT'S AND WE ALL GET ALONG ❤️ SHIT THEM BOYS & GIRLS ARE FAMILY AND THAT'S FACTS WE ALL GET ALONG GREAT 👍 ASK ANYONE IN THE PERRY'S

[@deborahbauer-covell4289]

DAMN BRO WHERE THE HELL ARE THERE ANY WHITE OUR BLACK STORES LAST TIME I LOOKED THE ARABIC PEOPLE OWN THEM ALL GOD BLESS US ALL AND TO ALL HAVE A GOOD NIGHT

[@jacobsoko5415]

Im just glad they have finally start putting more money in the inner city such as upgrading the Broadway market, tearing down vacant abandoned unsafe properties instead of keeping them up as graveyards. Still it is one of the most politically corrupt cities in NYS but it is an amazing place to grow up and live as long as you do the right things for the right reasons. I've been listening to b.e.n.n.y since 2004-2005. He's transformed alot by himself and his group by leading a great example. They are stand up guys and proud to say I am a neighbor in this city with them.

[@sierrachoco5271]

You're showing all of these big beautiful houses in North Buffalo - that's a small part. Most of the homes are small cape codes or ranches. It is not primarily Italian - every nationality and ethnic group lives here. Everyone respects one another and is cordial. Don't make it out to be a wealthy area, there are many working class people here - and we choose to respect our differences!!!!

[@conlawmeateater8792]

He has to show that buffalo is a piece of shit to fit his victim story

[@infinite_one]

It's a whole another aura of greatness there upper falls and down Rochester NY

[@sooowavy9085]

Rochester kiddy land compared to The Lo

[@infinite_one]

@@sooowavy9085 GG Heyoka 44👣⬇️it's not kiddieland just like other places ain't kiddieland real talk ☕

[@infinite_one]

@@sooowavy9085 and you see what you want to see remember you a creator you can uncreate it and make it balanced everybody move great for the right causes is how you think and what you see we are more than what they say we are thinking what they saying you will be

[@Mallyumansky]

I used to live in the roc on Joseph and upper falls blvd no cap as the youngins say!!

[@TheSublimeLifestyle]

@@sooowavy9085 Drugs, lmfao. It’s a reason Buff fuck with ROC and vice versa. They give it up on both places.

[@CiscoSZR]

Love Benny and the movement. I’m from Dallas/Ft Worth and theirs no unity here for rappers. Every rapper trying to kill each other here. Too much guns and banging

[@therealwhoopigoldberg]

I'm from Buffalo and live in Downtown Dallas now. I fell in love wit Dallas. Respect to all the hoods

[@Stonecoldalston]

I don't see it as them glorifying murder but more so telling the realities of where their from and showing that they made it out of that shit

[@vershawnsea9219]

Tru. U see that the more u watch. The reaction in the comments jus really shows how tired people are of hearing that shit

[@ayyyyp]

Proud to be from here, 2nd generation Italian/Sicilian born in the USA . But they're speaking FACTS in this video. We really don't leave our neighborhoods we grew up in. And its deeper than that too. South Buffalo and the Irish don't like Italians. First ward? If you're Italian/Sicilian Black Brown you aren't welcome down there. I got people on the east side that don't know shit about the west side. I got people on the west side that don't know shit about the east side. Outside the inner city, people do not cross into the suburbs, and vice versa. Wild. Cause when I travel to other places, it's nothing to visit different neighborhoods and see people from all over in one place. The only time the city really comes together is at festivals and concerts. We need to come together as a whole.

[@Charles_Dean]

How did I miss this? I’m surprised I’m just now seeing this

[@systemsbuilder1845]

GUAGGI made me laugh so hard but I respect it!

[@ratherunique2154]

What is a GUAGGI IVE SEEN IT AT THE MALL BUT THOUGHT OF IT AS SOMETHING LIKE FUBU TYPE MERCH

[@GUYFROM2047]

The little boy in Big Daddy “ I’m from Buffalo”

[@clarkkent9634]

I'm sorry, but you in Buffalo don't know how good ya got it. I've been gone 17 years , and can't wait to come back. I have been in 44 states. It's true what they say, Buffalo and it's people are a different breed. You forget it sometimes when life gets in the way, but I won't forget it next time!

[@MrBambrickRaps]

New York in da building show love

[@fbgwedgie]

Can’t believe Benny talking about reinvestment when he hasn’t done anything for the city

[@sitstill1561]

😆

[@bsquare5665]

Rt kzbin.info/www/bejne/lXu4pnesn95ljpY

[@lordofbathurst]

benny scams and is a fraud

[@stevenmyers365]

What would u know?

[@fbgwedgie]

@@stevenmyers365 me?

[@chuckschuman4378]

R.I.P Tyrell gone but never forgotten my homeboy lost his life on Bailey in Buffalo

[@janfram]

I live in Tonawanda but have worked by ECMC for years and have witnessed the savegry. It's dangerous.

[@SteelCityBloodInBloodOut]

Miss Buffalo n all my family n friends in Niagara Falls NY..Hyde Park Pierce Ave ..Highgate ,9th and Ferry street Damn those were the days

[@visualreaction9738]

The “culture”.. what the music industry pushes

[@eternitydriven9422]

I get it... everyone wants to be known as the city to be afraid of. Unfortunately as a Buff resident since I was 13 years old, it's never been that and still isn't. Definitely street, Definitely hood, definitely can get your issue if you come out here from somewhere else playing like it's sweet. Facts. Just like a lotta other major cities. Never a murder capital tho. And all these other upstate cities tryna vye for the title, yall ain't either. Outside of NYC, Buffalo has had the most crime in the state consistently than anywhere else... but who cares? Why is that the focal point? Here's why: Because street niggaz all over the counter are really afraid of each other. As tough as everyone sound, that same fear creeps in when they enter a new terrain and unfamiliar territory with like minded ppl. Nobody wants to get run over or made to feel or look like a punk. Period.

[@poundfoolish8691]

That's what im saying people mind their own business here.

[@RastafOdanini-mf7zg]

I hope yall realize that we got old head rappers out here sounding like kids who are glorifying violence but since they sound a bit more "mature," we can let it go. At the end of the day, a spade is a spade and this ain't no better than hearing it from our youth. Change starts from within but only if you want it to.

[@knowledgepower1906]

Self respect and love for your own is a must before anything can be done ✅ ✊🏿

[@aaronhouston3691]

From East side Detroit MI to East side Buffalo NY

[@Flangobeast]

BUFFALO NY STAND UP 716

[@thawwtpoettt]

Love the movie " Conflicted". Shout to the makers

[@kwestionme5241]

It goes to show where someone may see oh they are bragging, someone may say oh wow they made it out

[@anonymousanonymous9366]

Mad props to 'Benny The Butcher' dude for 'makin' it' as a rapper, and all that, but he is incorrect in what he is expressing at the outset of this video. When he states that "nothing good" is happening in Buffalo (NY) "for us", meaning: "black people", he is very actually INCORRECT. Due to industrious and excellent persons, there are indeed MANY historic, wonderful, and advantageous things happening in 'Black Buffalo'- and has been for all of the city's history. There are many activists, athletes, faith leaders, houses of worship, employers, community organizations, foundations, lending institutions, neighborhood groups, students, entrepreneurs, businesses, associations, guilds, military establishment outposts, unions, professionals, journalists, media outlets, newspapers, editors, etc., that always have been, are, and will continue to help make Black Buffalo better than it would be, otherwise. 'Benny', however, does speak for, and toward, a sizeable faction of individuals and households in 'Black Buffalo' who are not a part of the city's (ongoing) genesis and, in fact, its (continuing) renaissance. It is HIS, it is THEIR, fault that he/they fail to acknowledge the revolution's advances. To sit back on one's tush waiting for a savior to rescue one, or anyones else, from a poverty and/or under-education and/or under-employment plight, is a life approach tactic of The Unempowered. No one, not a president, not a governor, not a mayor, not a councilmember, not a legislator, not an alderman, not a senator, not an assemblyman, not a professor, not a researcher, not a journalist, not a physician, and most certainly not a rapper, is going to reverse a (chosen) Path Of Powerlessness. That mindset, worldview, mentality, approach, and outlook is, in truth, a primary and major determinant of individuals' and households' quality-of-life Outcomes. Benny, and anyone else who would complain about the quality-of-life in Buffalo, New York, USA, and any other city in these United States (for that matter), needs to receive the following revelation(s): "The group consisting of mother, father, and child is the main educational agency of mankind" - MLK "One of the most common tendencies of human nature is that of placing responsibility on some external agency for sins we have committed or mistakes we have made. We are forever attempting to find some scapegoat on which we cast responsibility for our actions." - MLK "Ultimately, individual responsibility lies not in the external situation but in the internal response." - MLK "...many examples that could be used to refute the claim that one is completely determined by his environment. Those who hold such a position fail to see that many fine and noble persons stem from bad environments and many very bad and corrupt persons stem from comfortable and desirable environments." - MLK "...Far from saying that environment and heredity have n importance in human personality, what I am really saying is that there is another factor which s the ultimate determining factor - personal responsibility." - MLK "We are not responsible for the environment we are born in, neither are we responsible for our hereditary circumstances. But there is a third factor for which we are responsible namely, the personal response which we make to these circumstances. And so the challenge which confronts all of us is to respond to our circumstances with strength and courage rather than with weakness and despair." - MLK "To get into a schoolhouse and study.....would be the same as getting into paradise." - Booker T. Washington "I have never had patience with [those] always ready to explain why one cannot succeed, I have always had high regard for the man who could tell me how to succeed." - Booker T. Washington "Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work." - Booker T. Washington "One constructive effort in the way of progress does more to blot out discrimination than all the whinings in the world." - Booker T. Washington "It is what a man or woman is able to do that counts." - Booker T. Washington "No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is left long without proper reward." - Booker T. Washington "The individual who can do something that the world wants will, in the end, make his way regardless of race." - Booker T. Washington

[@johndavis9321]

All facts bro we can all agree that their has been certain things put into place to stop many black neighborhoods from thriving but at the end of the day it’s gotta start wit us not a mayor or governor or president but wit is the citizens of the community

[@johndavis9321]

@Coff 444 get yo goofy ass on

[@a-townsfinest2843]

Throughout this entire video I had an image of benny the butcher in my head lol

[@infinite_one]

Thank you jingle jangles in the rough and some don't know it and others don't want you to come and grow out of it real talk

[@eacesyednollej3562]

716 EASTSIDE 💪🏾 💪🏾

[@sharonsantanastaley1246]

Same..☀️🤙🏼💯

[@MrSharyelsapimp]

Westsides better😂

[@wesleyrobinson4949]

Upstate NY is like Long Island NY it was always frowned upon by the Five Boros of NYC. But like Buffalo and other parts of Upstate NY L.I. has its hoods just in a suburban setting like Hempstead Roosevelt Bellport Brentwood Amityville Wyndance New Cassel Freeport Terrace Ave Central Islip that have spit out it share of success stories and Gangster's like any Black Hood in America. But like Benny and Conway they went even harder like Long Island MC's did during the Golden Era like Rakim EPMD Public Enemy Freddie Foxx Craig Mack Prodigy from Moob Deep Keith Murray just to name a few because The five Boros frowned upon any other part of NY that's not the five Boros but let's be honest these Upstate NY cats are the hardest in NY and when it came to the Golden Era of Hip Hop Strong Island NY had the game on smash with all the iconic MC's we spit out like Method Man Grand Daddy IU Ashanti JVC Force Soul for Real MF DOOM Ra the Rugged Man Rakim EPMD Dela Soul Freddie Foxx Leaders of the New School Craig Mack Prodigy from Moob Deep Biz Markie Doctor Dre from Yo MTV Raps Prince Paul from Stesasonic Rick Rubin Lil Moe Original Concept and today Roc Marciano.

[@adamsmith3996]

Buffalo is western N.Y. not upstate N.Y.

[@brandonn4553]

The whole state of New York is like Long Island excluding the 5 Boroughs

[@adamsmith3996]

@@brandonn4553 try the adirondacks. You,ll never find your way out.

[@Wugyz108]

Method Man is from NYC, not Long Island. Staten Island is a borough of NYC, its not part of L.I.

[@kidadobii4052]

I like it in Buffalo. I’m here for work now. I went to the Grove over on Broadway (in the hood).

[@ClaCus]

Been to buffalo as a kid I enjoy that place and never forgot it but not that side of town.

[@dmvnation202]

Stop thriving in ignorance my black people.

[@GLA45Amg716]

Bruh who cares we know how tough the hood is. I don’t wanna see this shit.

[@Amanda_1985]

I'm in niagara falls N.Y , its getting pretty bad here too

[@crystalmiller4829]

There isn't no houses in Niagara Falls me and my friend was just talking about that indifferent the rent is cheap in Niagara Falls

[@melhudson366]

This is dope i love my city

[@_KG900]

It’s okay but Niagara is better

[@jayhendricks67]

I can't believe Buffalo is Poorer than Newburgh NY that place is unbelievable hood

[@trevonmoses]

same shit with Nc everyone that’s outsiders think everyone here from Charlotte or Raleigh like no bro there’s other places lol

[@lilnugizaking]

Don’t take it personal bro. People only care about the popular cities. You gotta make your city famous and put it on the map

[@Shel230]

Ya probably immigrants think that

[@Scamp2x]

Nobody cares about North Carolina you don’t count

[@trevonmoses]

@@Scamp2x 😂😂😂aye, we invented alotta stuff & got hella famous people shut up

[@ObaTheGreat]

It is still Jim Crow Era racism up here with a craaaazy murder rate ..Finally a Doc on this shyt

[@jugg1492]

Well spoken.

[@antonmcgleen5812]

716 east side 🗣

[@draceygates1327]

Salute to my Buffalo Bros..

[@RubenAsher2000]

7:52 really out here hittin em wit the hard R

[@dulakif7560]

I’m from Chicago I love New York 💯💙

[@williammatthews7252]

Shout out to Buffalo from Detroit 313

[@Scamp2x]

Since when was Buffalo the murder cap?

[@paulfeffer3442]

Good video

[@fubucrakks101]

Wonder why I’ve never seen this this is 3-4 years old

[@Grimey8lues3x]

blacc rob LIKE WHOA came outta 8uffalo cuzz

[@theleekyshow1515]

Ruff buff all day 💯🔥

[@Cjudes]

Born and raised on Sweet Ave. Still go to Arty’s on Peckham St. Nothing but great memories but my parents moved us out in 1985. They didn’t have a choice, East Side always got neglected. Unfortunately it took a horrible racist mass shooting at Tops to finally give the East Side some love.

[@busterevergreen9673]

Same in Cleveland my dad tardy I bring me there when I was younger feels like Cleveland to me.

[@elistaxz3693]

Tbh I’m from nyc we don’t know nothing bout Buffalo but colleges up there

[@pettyminds7186]

That’s how I know about buff cause I did undergrad now in graduate school #brooklyn

[@zaytime4156]

Buffalo def worse than NYC I was just in the city I felt safe it’s literally police everywhere out there Buffalo worse it’s just way smaller. Shit Rochester might even be worse than the City

[@elistaxz3693]

@@zaytime4156 see this what I mean wym when u was in the city the city has 5 boroughs u didn’t go to each one of them u went to time square that is not the hood

[@gogetter9888]

Buffalo was owned by a black man real rap do your research!!

[@clearvizionmedia1151]

Wonder how he lost it

[@afenismama]

716..East side. Bailey and Delevan area. Times have changed and it's sad. Too much killing and violence

[@ejbeastthamaker]

Grew up near central park plaza off Montclaire back when the plaza was an actual plaza with a big grocery store, barber shop, the whole 9. McCarthy Park n most of east amherst was always poppin off growin up. Mom threatened to off me if she heard I was on Broadway. Saw the madness but avoided it but yeah buffalo is great for the most part. Made a choice years ago to start exploring n personally I've met dope people on Elmwood, Grant, Lackawanna....you just gotta look. Only place I felt like I get stared at is Amherst near the boulevard mall. It has its own garbage like any city, but this is a city with town dna and i love it for that.